The Grover Cleveland Mine is a composite of several small mining operations dating from the 1930s to the 1960s. These mines varied in the minerals that they produced ranging from coal to precious metals. The Head Frame allows ore to be pulled up from the mine shaft using a steam engine located in the Hoist House. This ore is then pushed in a Mine Car by men or pulled by horses on a mine track via the Shaft House to the Gantry. At the base of the Gantry, the Mine Car is hooked to a cable and then pulled up to the load-out area where it is dumped into a hopper car that will be taken to the local processing mill. Waste rock is routed over another mine track and dumped into a tailings or culm pile.

I love how the mine looks, but I'm disappointed with the gantry house. My n-scale coal hoppers cannot fit thru its loading dock on the track. It's too short and narrow. The horse that came with kit seems to be HO scale. My kit may have been a mix of z thru HO scale.